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		gen220 on Jan 8, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: My First Impressions of Web3 I don’t think changing the RPC URL exec’s an ethereum light client. Extending the mail server analogy, updating the MX record does not exec a mail server.

CryptoPunk on Jan 8, 2022 [–]

He's saying that configuring MetaMask to work with a light client is as easy as changing the RPC URL. The light client still needs to be installed/configured separately.

Ideally, as Moxie suggested, MetaMask itself integrates a light client into its wallet, so that it becomes the default configuration.

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